Eastern pygmy marmoset

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Eastern pygmy marmoset
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Eastern pygmy marmosets in Dudley Zoo, England
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Suborder: Haplorhini
Infraorder: Simiiformes
Family: Callitrichidae
Genus: Cebuella
Species:
C. niveiventris
Binomial name
Cebuella niveiventris
Lönnberg, 1940

The eastern pygmy marmoset (Cebuella niveiventris) is a marmoset species, a very small New World monkey found in the southwestern Amazon Rainforest in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Peru. It was formerly regarded as conspecific with the similar western pygmy marmoset, but the eastern pygmy marmoset has whitish underparts. Although the eastern pygmy marmoset occurs further east than the western pygmy marmoset, the primary separators of their ranges are the Amazon River (Solimões River) and Maranon River, with the western occurring to the north of them and the eastern to the south.[1] The species has recently been confirmed by DNA testing to exist in Ecuador, hundreds of kilometers north of the Maranon River.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b de la Torre, S.; Calouro, A.M.; Wallace, R.B.; Mollinedo, J.M.; Messias, M.R.; Valença-Montenegro, M.M. (2021). "Cebuella niveiventris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T136865A191707236. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T136865A191707236.en. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. ^ Universidad de San Francisco de Quito https://www.elcomercio.com/tendencias/nueva-especie-mono-leoncillo-amazonia.html

Further reading[]

  • Boubli, J.P.; et al. (2018). "How many pygmy marmoset (Cebuella Gray, 1870) species are there? A taxonomic re-appraisal based on new molecular evidence". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 120: 170–182. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.11.010.


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